Global Product Leader, Clinical Decision Support

Abbott • Lake Forest, CA

11d • $129,300 - $258,700

About The Position

Abbott is seeking an experienced, visionary Global Product Leader to drive the strategy, innovation, and growth of its AlinIQ Clinical Decision Support (CDS) portfolio. The role will connect diagnostics, laboratory informatics, clinical workflows, healthcare data, artificial intelligence, and enterprise healthcare ecosystems to support evidence-based, efficient, and personalized care. The leader will work with customers, commercial teams, R&D, medical affairs, clinical experts, and executive leadership to deliver solutions intended to improve clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, care quality, and patient experience.

The role defines the portfolio vision and multi-year roadmap, identifies market and customer opportunities, develops business cases, prioritizes investments, and leads portfolio planning, lifecycle management, platform expansion, and innovation. It partners with technical, clinical, regulatory, quality, and commercial teams to translate healthcare needs into requirements and deliver validated, user-centered products. The leader also drives customer and market engagement, commercialization, ecosystem partnerships and integrations, global cross-functional alignment, talent development, and portfolio business and financial performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Healthcare Informatics, Life Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Computer Science, Engineering, Public Health, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in product management, product strategy, or portfolio management within healthcare software, clinical informatics, digital health, diagnostics, or healthcare IT.
• Proven success leading global product portfolios and delivering enterprise healthcare technology solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, including developing growth strategies, business cases, and investment plans.
• Experience launching and scaling global software, informatics, or digital health solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in clinical decision support, healthcare informatics, diagnostics, population health, or enterprise healthcare platforms.
• Expertise in SaaS, cloud-based platforms, digital ecosystems, and platform product management.
• Knowledge of AI/ML-enabled healthcare solutions, clinical analytics, predictive insights, and workflow automation.
• Familiarity with global healthcare regulations, interoperability standards, and healthcare data exchange.
• Experience with healthcare integrations and standards, including HL7, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks, APIs, EHR/EMR, LIS, and healthcare ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the AlinIQ Clinical Decision Support portfolio in alignment with corporate growth objectives.
• Position AlinIQ CDS within Abbott’s Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Healthcare Informatics ecosystem.
• Identify market opportunities, customer needs, regulatory requirements, industry trends, and competitive dynamics; develop business cases and prioritize investments.
• Lead product portfolio planning, lifecycle management, platform expansion, and innovation initiatives; evaluate partnerships, clinical content providers, AI capabilities, integrations, and ecosystem opportunities.
• Partner with R&D, software engineering, medical affairs, clinical affairs, quality, regulatory, data science, and commercial teams to deliver solutions.
• Translate provider, laboratory, payer, and health system needs into product requirements and development roadmaps.
• Champion agile development, user-centered design, evidence-based validation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive innovation in clinical rules engines, intelligent workflows, predictive analytics, population health insights, personalized recommendations, and AI-assisted decision support.
• Define and monitor KPIs for adoption, engagement, efficiency, outcomes, and business performance; support global product launches and commercialization.
• Represent the voice of the customer and develop understanding of clinical workflows, diagnostic pathways, and healthcare decision-making.
• Engage physicians, laboratorians, care teams, executives, population health leaders, and industry stakeholders to validate solutions.
• Lead customer advisory boards, clinical councils, market research, and competitive assessments; represent Abbott at conferences, customer engagements, and thought leadership forums.
• Drive an integrated CDS ecosystem connecting diagnostics, analytics, EHR/EMR systems, clinical workflows, care management, and enterprise platforms.
• Advance decision support across the patient journey, including real-time clinical intelligence, predictive modeling, workflow orchestration, evidence-based recommendations, and generative AI-enabled insights.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver scalable, secure, explainable, and interoperable solutions; ensure alignment with regulations, standards, governance requirements, and best practices.
• Establish frameworks for clinical content management, recommendation transparency, and ongoing evidence updates.
• Foster innovation, accountability, collaboration, and customer-centricity; influence and align global cross-functional teams; mentor product management talent and build product leadership capabilities.
• Develop and execute portfolio business plans, forecasts, investment strategies, and performance measures; manage investment priorities and support annual strategic planning.
• Monitor adoption, utilization, market growth, profitability, and ROI; present recommendations and growth opportunities to senior leadership.
• Support strategic decisions concerning platform expansion, partnerships, acquisitions, AI capabilities, and emerging technologies.

Benefits

• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor’s degree.
• Health and wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior